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Monthly Archives: April 2013

I admit, I was a little worried. After all the hubbub surrounding Star Wars: The Old Republic’s rocky transition to free-to-play and the departure of much of its creative team, I was half prepared to boot up the Rise of the Hutt Cartel expansion and hear BioWare developers filling in for actor David Hayter’s original…

The latest incarnation of Motocross Madness has its share of visual surprises scattered across its Egyptian, Australian, and Icelandic vistas, but none leaves so great an impression as a daredevil in the Elite Knight armor from Dark Souls flipping his dirt bike 30 feet above the Egyptian desert. Is this the titular madness? Hardly. Rather,…

My, what a different 100 years make. I don’t think anyone could call the modern world a shining beacon of perfection, but BioShock Infinite wastes no time in demonstrating how much ideas about racism, religion, and patriotism have advanced with all the subtlety of swatting flies with a baseball bat. Columbia, the sprawling city in…

Not too long ago, undertaking academic research away from your desk involved what felt like outfitting yourself for a long expedition. Those days aren’t completely behind us, but today’s scholars are fortunate in that iOS devices fill many of the same roles once provided by those piles of notebooks, recorders, and books, thus allowing you…

There’s a science to getting people from point A to point B, and Cities in Motion 2 takes a very technical, not particularly user-friendly approach to its simulation of urban mass transit. Despite significant strides in creative freedom over its predecessor, this is still largely a puzzle about imposing a successful public transportation system on…